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A)Walt Whitman
B)Jonathan Swift
C)Washington Irving
E)Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Which of the below are the two black writers of the Colonial Period?
3. Which of the below is not one of the themes of Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by
Nathaniel Hawthorne?
D)foolishness
E)eternal youth
A) equality
B) tradition
D) justice
Ε) liberty
B)"Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana; or, Gustavus Vassa, the
American, Written by Himself" was the first slave narrative to be an international best-
seller.
E)White American sailors who were captured by the North-African pirates wrote slave
narratives.
subconscious fears.
B)Phillis Wheatley
C)Royall Tyler
E) Washington Irving
7. ……….. was a poet and journalist, writing anti- slavery poems such as
Ichabod.
A) Walt Whitman
B) Margaret Fuller
8. Who was accepted as America's first great man of letters and was the writer
of "Autobiography"?
A)Benjamin Franklin
D)Thomas Paine
Revolutionary Period?
A) poetry
B) diary
C) journalism
D) fiction
E) religious writing
A-rationally
B-balance
C-objectivity
D-harmony
E) Subjectivity
naturalism?
A-imagination
C-free will
D-natural laws
E-Darwin's theory
A-M'Fingal
C-Modern Chivalry
D-American Liberty
E- The Contrast
A-Hannah Foster
B-Marw Rowlandson
C-Emily Dickinson
E-Anne Bradstreet
A-Epistola
B-History of the Indians
C-Vinland Saga
D-The exploration
E-Journa
A-guilt
B-disturbed psyche
C-self-help
D-self-destruction
E-insanity
Literature?
A-chants
B-fairy tales
C-epics
D-anecdotes
E-novels
19. Who wrote The Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself stressing
c.Phillip Frenau
d.Walt Whitman
e.Mayflower Compact
a.Nature
b.Brahma
c.Civil Disobedience
d.Sel-Reliance
e.Over-Soul
a.Otis Warren
b.Susanna Rowson
c.Abigail Adams
Hannah Foster
23. Which of the below cannot be a theme in Puritan writing?
a.life as a test
b.capitalism
d.heavenly bliss
e.damnation
Transcendentalists?
b.The Dial
c.The Wit
d.the Spirit
e-Imagination
D)psychological states
E)sublime
A)nonconformism
C)commendation of business
D)Passive Resistance
A. Edith Wharton
B. Henry James
C. Jack London
D. Stephen Crane
E. Theodore Dreiser
America?
A. Hannah Foster
B. Susanna Rowson
C. Margaret Fuller
D. Anne Bradstreet
E. Emily Dickenson
stupidity."
discusses the…….¿
A. scientific dependence
B. intellectual dependence
D. economic dependence
E. political dependence
30.Which poet wrote "An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York"?
A. Jupiter Hammon
B. William Byrd
C. John Woolman
D. Anne Bradstreet
E. Olaudah Equiano
A. optimism
B. anthropomorphization of evil
C. self-destruction
D. human fallibility
E. sin
32.Who has been deemed the first American writer to earn his living from
writing?
A. Emily Dickinson
D. Benjamin Franklin
E. Washington Irving
B. civil rights
C.violence
D.resistance to injustice
E. passive resistance
34.Which of the below work has been accepted as the harbinger of the
Declaration of Independence?
A. Mayflower Compact
C. Of Plymouth Plantation
35.……….was the author of The House of Mirth, the Age of Innocence and Ethan
Frome, writing about the Europeans and the Americans. Who is this author?
A. Kate Chopin
C. Stephen Crane
D. Edith Warton
E. Henry James
36.Who wrote about the frontiers embodied in the character of Natty Bumppo?
A.Nathaniel Hawthorn
B.Rudyard Kippling
D.Washington Irving
E.Charles Dickens
A. transcendental experience
C. human psychology
D. the genius
E. scientific objectivity
38.…..was a poet who became the first influential newspaper editor in America?
A. Walt Whitman
C. John Trumbull
D. Timothy Dwight
E. Phillip Frenau
B) authoritarion state
C) tradition
D) religious dogmas
E) inequality
40.…..was the earliest European to define the new American character and
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Washington Irving
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Herman Melville
41.Which of the below wrote the stories about an Indian princess Pocahontas?
A.Coyote
B.Thomas Hariot
C.Christopher Columbus
D.Bartolome de Casas
E.John Smith